This article is a research project developed within the framework of the seminar on the concepts of art and criticism, of the Master of history and theory of art, architecture and the city of Bogota UNAL. Exercise proposing an inquiry into the contradictions that generate some recent definitions of the role of art criticism, in which he proposes to understand the criticism itself as a pedagogical act. As proposed methodology to compare the speech of a series of contemporary art critics, with the principles of the learning theories that guide the field of pedagogy.